Laugh at Love! MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Mice and Money" / LOVE ROMANCES "By Love Betrayed!"

Here's a Silver Age romance story illustrated by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta...

...which noted award-winning novelist/screenwriter/comic book author Joe R Lansdale rewrote!

I doubt plotter Stan Lee and scripter Larry Leiber or artists Kirby and Colletta ever thought this story would end up reading like that!

In fact, editor Lee was so pleased with the results that he made it the cover story for Atlas' Love Romances #102 (1962)...even though no cover art existed!

(The main figure is from the story's splash panel and the others are re-worked art from other stories!)

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Our Annual "Beach Read" Gothic Romance...but with a Humorous Twist!

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Marvel Romance Redux

Amorous Education LOVE ROMANCES "No Dates for the Dance!" / MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed Campus Undercover Cuite"

College is stressful enough without this...

...which is enough to reduce even the smartest of students to a despairing sad sack!

You would think this tale about a girl falling for a guy who looks exactly like the younger version of her daddy by penciler Dick Giordano & inker Vince Colletta (along with an unknown writer)  from Atlas' Love Romances #89 (1960) was kinky enough, right?

But Marvel decided it needed the raunchiness kicked up to 11!

So writer Michael Lieb kept the art, but re-wrote the story for Marvel Romance Redux: Restraining Orders are for Other Girls (2006)...

Just when you thought romance comics couldn't get any weirder...

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Another Tale of Amorous Education!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Which includes "No Dates for the Dance"
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Marvel Romance Redux
Which includes "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed College Cutie"

Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVE ROMANCES "Confessions of Judith Temple"

Despite the lurid title...

...this is a story about disease and it's effect on a young woman's life!

Wow! How things have changed!

To think a bunch of busybody biddies might have the power to drive someone out of town without any evidence of wrongdoing!

Sounds a lot like the chant "LOCK HER UP!", eh?

"Infantile paralysis" is another name for polio, for which Dr Jonas Salk developed a vaccine in 1955, four years after this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Love Romances #19 was published!

Versatile multi-genre illustrator Frank R. Sieminsky did several dozen comic stories from romance to Westerns to crime and horror from the late 1940s to early 1950s.

What he did after that is unknown...

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Another Tale of Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics